[COMP] Re: e-smith, inc. - index

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  • Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:12:18 -0700


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#From: "Bruno Van de Casteele" <brunovdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 3:24 AM
Subject: [COMP] Re: e-smith, inc. - index


> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 10:10:27 -0700, the Da-Sein "Mark Symonds"
<mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> |Probably much faster than NT because you aren't forced
> |into that ridiculous and useless GUI. (MHO) ... I don't
> |get why they did that.  Much easier to do userdel username
> |than wade through a bunch of windows.
>
> actually, as a long-time windows-user i have mixed feelings about this.
> I've never tried Redhat, so I cant say anything about it, but my opinion
> in Debian was that a GUI (or even simple menu-driven) interfacte might
> be handy.

I guess in some situations it might, but it's as not easy to
some things like you can at the command line.  Say I want to
know how many accounts on a box use bash for their shell ...
grep bash /etc/passwd |wc -l would give an idea.

It's just two completely different approaches I guess.  In
Linux, even when running X I'll *always* have a terminal or
three open, whereas in Windows I'm rarely in a DOS box.

> But still, some more interface might be handy to get more people to use
> linux (apparently, this is wat Redhat does?).

Redhat is good for people coming striaght off of the Start
Button imho.  Best to switch to another distro after reading
a couple books and getting familiar with the system.  I also
noticed (at least with 5.x) that it likes to run alot of
unnecessary services by default, making the box inherently
insecure.

> But only as an extra
> option, not standard (like NT)
>

That's my biggest gripe about it.  They don't even give
the option.  Just this huge GUI eating up cycles and memory
that would be better spent on servicing users.  Argh!  :)

--
Mark

---
We all agree on the necessity of compromise.
We just can't agree on when it's necessary
to compromise.
        -- Larry Wall





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